painkills2
New Member
I want to thank Andrea Sundberg at the DOH for forwarding the pdf files that included patient letters regarding the proposed rule changes, along with letters from family, doctors, attorneys, as well as current and potential industry stakeholders. I read every single one.
It would be helpful if these documents were available through the DOH website.
I am disappointed that a number of people expressed the desire to keep the program as it is, except for increasing the plant count for producers and adding more producers -- as if the program would work just fine if only the supply issues were dealt with, and in the same ways they had been dealt with before (in 2010), with little success.
If the DOH's goal was to distract patients from the real problems in the program, along with generating a feeling that everyone should just be happy with the status quo, I guess it succeeded. But I think a large part of that success is due to the fear that patients have in coming forward to complain, along with the privacy and medical issues in doing so.
I think I would have more hope in this program if only more patients were fighting to expand it and increase access, instead of just fighting to keep it the way it is.
It would be helpful if these documents were available through the DOH website.
I am disappointed that a number of people expressed the desire to keep the program as it is, except for increasing the plant count for producers and adding more producers -- as if the program would work just fine if only the supply issues were dealt with, and in the same ways they had been dealt with before (in 2010), with little success.
If the DOH's goal was to distract patients from the real problems in the program, along with generating a feeling that everyone should just be happy with the status quo, I guess it succeeded. But I think a large part of that success is due to the fear that patients have in coming forward to complain, along with the privacy and medical issues in doing so.
I think I would have more hope in this program if only more patients were fighting to expand it and increase access, instead of just fighting to keep it the way it is.
